Texas Coal Mines Fading with the Market
SUGAR LAND--November 15, 2016--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Plans by Luminant Mining Company LLC, a subsidiary of the newly formed Vistra Energy Corporation (Dallas, Texas), to close the Oak Hill lignite mine near Henderson, Texas, are a prime example of the dwindling market for Texas lignite and the blight of the coal industry in general as it struggles against a rising tide of new renewable power sources and fuel switching to natural gas and Powder River Basin coal.
